Hey! I hope this is the right topic.

I currently have an 80gb hard drive in my XBOX with hundreds of Photo's, Music, and Videos.

It's now full and I'm wanting to put more photo's on it, so I'm looking at upgrading to a bigger hard drive.


Is there an easy method of cloning my hard drive to keep all the photo's? I have a USB interface which plugs into IDE hard drives.

I would have though I could FTP to the XBOX and copy the whole contents over to a new one using the IDE interface? But would that work if I tried to put it in my xbox?

Will my computer read the XBOX hard drive format?

Any suggestions will be great!


Thanks!

As far as I know, which isn't much, you can't format your xbox hard drive like you said. Use a program like xboxhdm, chimp (not good for 1.6's)- there are more, too. Your xbox is in fatx format and your pc drives are most likely ntfs or fat32.

Chimps is the easiest. It does work with 1.6's but you have to Telnet to 192.168.0.3 with the Xbox connected.

Markturnip, let me be the first to tell you that if you have a 1.6 it will be a b!7c# to telnet into. I followed every guide I could find, but I still can't to get it to work and still get the same error about port 23. I've had much better luck with xboxhdm (but unfortunately for me I don't have a desktop right now).

Well I can format it all on the XBOX, I'm just wondering how I can copy all the stuff off my last drive to the new one without having to copy it all to my computer then onto the new one all over FTP....


If I format a hard drive in the XBOX, unlock it, then connect it to my computer over the IDE interface - will a PC/Mac be able to read/write to a FATX format?

According to the fatx wikipedia page- "Xbox hard drives can be read and written using the FatX Explorer or Xplorer360 software."

Hey, thanks for that info!

Infact I also looked up about XBOXHDM - which you mentioned, sorry I replied before I refreshed the page so didn't see that till later.

I'll try using FatX Explorer or Xplorer360 and if that doesn't work I'll attempt to do it via XBOXHDM.

I'll let you know how it goes!

I have always had good luck using Norton Ghost.